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The Linux Sysadmins Guide to Virtual Disks (First Edition)

by: Tim Case

Publication date: 2016-03-03
Usage: Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International
Topics: linux, virtual machines, virtualization, virtual disks, qcow2, vmdk, raw, qemu
Collection: opensource
Language: English
Item Size: 40.6M

I was motivated to write this book because I felt the quality of the information regarding commonly used functionality in virtual disk operation was lacking certain specific clear examples. The information that is available is not contained in a central location. Some concepts of the qemu system aren’t covered at all. FAQs lead on to having an answer to a particular query, but many lead you to off site resources, some of which are no longer available on the Internet.

What I hope to provide is a book which will demonstrate the core concepts of virtual disk management. This book will concern itself primarily with the qemu-img tool and common GNU/Linux disk utility tools like fdisk, parted, and resize2fs. Most importantly to me, in the case of non-trivial examples, I hope to identify what the relevant technical concepts are and how they work up to the final result of each example.

The book is officially hosted on https://scribesguides.com/
The sources in full are on https://github.com/timlnx/Virtual-Disk-Guide (and an export is attached here as well)
The authors personal site is https://blog.lnx.cx/